Jack McGaw

{{Short description|Canadian journalist}} {{Infobox person | name = | image =  | alt =  | caption = | birth_name = John Howard David McGaw | birth_date = {{Birth date|1936|05|22}} | birth_place = [[Winnipeg|Winnipeg, Manitoba]], Canada | death_date = {{Death date and age|2012|10|18|1936|05|22}} | death_place = [[Kitchener, Ontario]], Canada | other_names = | alma_mater = [[University of British Columbia]] | occupation = journalist | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = | television = {{plainlist| * [[Live It Up! (TV series)|Live It Up!]] * [[W5 (TV program)|W5]] }} | spouse = {{plainlist| * {{marriage|Ann Nuttall|1956|end=div}} * {{marriage|[[Ann Medina]]|1975|end=div}} * {{marriage|Marcia Macleod|1986}} }} | children = 3 }}

'''John Howard David''' "'''Jack'''" '''McGaw''' (May 22, 1936 – October 18, 2012) was a [[Canadians|Canadian]] journalist and radio operator. He was a cohost of the consumer newsmagazine ''[[Live It Up! (TV series)|Live It Up!]]'' in the early 1980s, and subsequently produced and hosted freelance documentary programming.

In the mid-1990s, McGaw launched a [[tourism|tourist]] information radio station on [[Vancouver Island]]. He subsequently moved to [[Halifax Urban Area|Halifax]] in 2001, and operated that city's CIRH-FM, and similar stations in the Information Radio network in locations across [[Canada]].

McGaw was born in [[Winnipeg|Winnipeg, Manitoba]] and grew up in [[Chilliwack|Chilliwack, British Columbia]]. He married three times in his life and had three children with his first wife. He died of [[gallbladder cancer]] on October 18, 2012 in [[Kitchener, Ontario]], at the age of 76.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/obituary-broadcaster-jack-mcgaw-was-the-ulimate-professional/article6610800/|title = Obituary: Broadcaster Jack McGaw was the ultimate professional}}</ref>

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20121230151854/http://older.kingsjournalism.com/kjr/journalism_3673_6491.html Profile of McGaw's Information Radio in the King's Journalism Review] * [https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/obituary-broadcaster-jack-mcgaw-was-the-ulimate-professional/article6610800/ Obituary in the Globe and Mail]

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